Is 2 some sort of identity (like 0 and 1 are)?

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I am not a serious mathematician, and I am barely familiar with some of the topics of higher maths. From YouTube videos, I learned about the Graham's Number and Knuth's arrow notation, which is a generalization of the pattern: addition → multiplication → exponentiation ($\uparrow$) → tetration ($\uparrow\uparrow$) → pentation ($\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow$) → etc.

Independently, I've realized that:

$$2\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow2 = 2\uparrow\uparrow2 = 2\uparrow2 = 2\times2 = 2+2 = 4$$

… and it looks like the identity holds for higher orders of operation (above pentation); in fact, it is not hard to see that it holds for all orders, with any number of arrows.

Is it a well-known fact? Is it a particularly interesting one? Can $2$ be an identity of some kind, just like $0$ is an additive identity, and $1$ is a multiplicative identity?